Intel® Core™ 12th Gen i3-12100F desktop processor, featuring PCIe Gen 5.0 & 4.0 support, DDR5 and DDR4 support. Discrete graphics required.

This has enough power to play ALL games. I don't have a single one in my library that uses more than 50% of this CPU. It plays GTA 5, satisfactory, far cry 6, cities skylines, and it can even play UEBS 2 with 4 million A.I. enemies. I've only ever seen this hit 100% on benchmarks.Just because it's an i3, don't think it's weak. 12th gen i3's are more powerful than i7's of older generations.Don't buy the i5, i7, or i9. This is more than enough.Update 5-25-2024This processor is still going strong and can still play modern games. Runs sons of the forest like a champ never hitting 100%. Unfortunately I have found 2 games this struggles to run. Star citizen and grey zone warfare. It is 100% the entire time on both of these games. Grey zone warfare can still run at 80fps on ultra settings at 4k, but Star citizen bogs down so bad it's almost unplayable. But still, even in 2024 it's still a great buy and I still recommend.Update 7-18-2024I upgraded to a Rtx 4070 graphics card and this CPU still isn't bottlenecking. I can now achieve over 120fps at 4K before my graphics card bottleneckes, but this CPU still only gets up to about 80%. Can run at over 120fps on most games. I also did some video editing with this and it was very fast. Never stuttered even once. Not gonna upgrade until 16th or 17th gen chips at least. Maybe later if it's still keeping up with modern games as well as it is now.

Using this as my cpu in my main pc and it’s still going strong! Haven’t had any trouble with performance or bottlenecks, and that’s running at 4k all high and ultra settings. Feel like this was an awesome buy for the price!

Great

Surprisingly good for gaming and runs everything else really fast plus it's affordable for budget ballers

Forget about all the sluggishness with browsers, and Microsoft Office applications on your desktop with this one. Paired with any GPU it can run some undemanding (non AAA) games.

Good cpu, i use it for gaming with RTX 2060 super dualNo problem except the stock fan, need be replaced, not very efficient, buy another cpu fan like Assassin king or so good for it.

Great little budget CPU for gaming

I didnt expect much from an i3, but once again I was blinded by the label. This product holds the price to performance of a console KILLER. It's single core power is up there with the ryzen 7000 series processors, supporting ddr5 ram at only 90 dollars WITH the cooler. Assuming your average cooler is about 10 dollars, you really can't go wrong with an 84 dollar cpu capable of 500+ fps on minecraft, 300+ fps on valorant, etc.I will say though, a quad core cpu in 2023 is a bit questionable, since you'll have extra issues streaming and recording games. The cache is also pretty low for this cpu, but you really can't hate too much on a 90 dollar cpu at this magnitude of performance.Overall solid cpu, more than I need for games and editing. DONT BE BLINDED BY THE I3 LABEL, IT PERFORMS UP THERE WITH RYZEN CPUS AND 10TH GEN I7S!!!